Book-cover protector.



T; C. HAILES & CJE. JONES.

BOOK COVER PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED \PR. 13. 1915. I

Patented May 1916.

. avewboug provide a curren THEODORE C. HAILES AND SCHARDES EDWARD JONES, OF ALBANY, YORK.

.BOOK-OOVER PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May as, 1916.

Application filed April 13, 1915. Serial No. 21,075.

To all whom 2'2; may concern Be it known that we, THEODORE G. HA'LLES and CHARLES EDWARD J oNns,, citizens of the United States, both residing in the city and county of Albany. and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful/Improvements in Book-Cover Protectors, of

which the following is a fulland clear specification. I

In the majority of the public schools of the country, books for the students are supplied by the school board, and to increase the life of the'books' as Well as provide for sanitary requirements, it is the practice to cover all school books with a' paper protector orouter cover.

that .a good dealof the'students time is consumed andthe resulting coveredbooks are far from uniform. The covering of the books is particularly necessary because they are transferred to different students a number of times, depending upon the life of the books. j

The purpose of the present invention is to ound book with a cover protector that will avoid the necessity of using a home-made cover protector and which will lend uniformity to the appearance .of the school books and increasethe length of serv- In its simplest form the improved book cover protector comprises a protector sheet permanently attached 'at one or'more points -to the book caverand provided with means the for facilitating its removal when it becomes worn or 'soile In'its more practical and useful form, the

invention includes such a book cover protector formed of a plurality of superimposed sheets ofproper material permanently attached to the cover at one or more points and completely inc'losing the cover. The means for facilitating-the removal of rotector from the book cover comprise wea ened lines or portions of the protecting material by which the material can be neatly torn away and removed from the book cover. -Any suitable device may besemployed for this purpose including scored lines or perforations and wherever such expressions as scored llne, perforations, separating hues andlthe like are employed This work of covering the books. is frequently done by the students, either at school or at home, With the resultin the claims, such term is intended to indicate any device of this character which is intended to confinethe tearing action to a predetermined line extending between a major portion which is to be removed from the book and a minor portion from which openingsit is preferred that the openings of the several sheets be placed out of reg- 1ster with each other.

-Any suitable material such as-paper or cloth may be employed in making the improved book cover protector, and if desired, the material may be chemically treated to render it germ-proof.

' In order that our invention may be fully understood we will first describe the same with reference to the accompanying draw-- 'ing's, and afterward point out the novelty more particularly in the annexed claims. In said -draWing,=Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book provided with the improved book cover protector showing the outer protector sheet partially torn away to expose. the next inner protector sheet. Fig.

" 2 is a perspective view of the book with one of the covers raised to show the arrangement of the cover protectors on the inner face ofthe book cover.

In the drawings, X is an ordinary bound book with stilf covers hinged to the back in the usual way. In binding such books the common practice is to provide the sewed book of leaves with strengthened cover-attaching sheets or fly leaves which are glued ,to the previously prepared cover for securing the book in the cover.

In preparing a boundbook with the improved cover protector, we propose to mount one or a number of protector sheets upon the previously prepared. book cover in such manner that the fly leaf of the book will be glued tovthe inside of the book cover after main body of the I the protector is in place. In accomplishing this the protector is permanently secured upon the book at one or more points without interfering with the removability of the protector when it becomes worn or soiled.

In producing the cover protector, suitably blanked out sheets ofproper material are prepared Withweakened lines formed by scoring or perforating, these weakened lines being located with proper regard to their desired position with reference to the book cover when the protector is folded and secured thereon;

The drawing illustrates a cover protector made up of two superimposed sheets or layers A and B. The inner layer A has its side and end edges a-a' folded inwardly upon the book cover and secured thereon by gluing in the usual way. This inner protector member is formed with linesof perforations 1, 2-and 3, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawing. This inner protector also has a perforation 5 in its outer face for the, reception of a pointed instrument to be usedfor removing the cover protectors. The title of the book may be printed on this inner cover protector as indicated in Fig. '1.

The second or outer protector B has its edges b?2 folded inwardly upon the infolded edges of the first protector sheet to which said edges are secured. This outer protector sheet has lines pf perforations indicated at 6, 7 and 8, which lines are out of coincidence with the lines of perforations of the inner protector sheet. The outer protector sheet has upon its face a perforation indicated at 10 for the insertionof a sharp pointed instrument. Each of the cover pro tectors therefore comprises a major cover portion and an attaching portion, the former being separable from the latter along a separating line extending between said portions.

When the plurality of cover protectors are properly folded upon and secured to the book cover in the manner explained, the.

book is bound into the protected cover in the usual manner, the reinforced binding sheets or fly leaves of the book being glued over the inner surfaces of the book covers and por-' tions of the inturned edges of the cover protectors, care being taken in securing the book in the protective cover that the binding fly leaves :0 do not extend over the lines of perforations 1, 2, 3 and 6, 7, 8. A broken away portion of one of said binding leaves is shown at as in Fig. 2.

After the outer cover protector has become soiled or .worn it can be removed by inserting a pointed instrument in the tearing hole or perforation l0, and tearing or cutting the protector sheet from the book. The weakened lines 6, 7 8 of this outer protector sheet serve to define the tearing lines ed to form an entirely new and clean cover protector.

While we have shown an improved book cover protector consisting of only two'superimposed sheets, it will be clear that any 'practical number of such protector sheetsv can be employed. The number desired depending largelv upon the length of life of the book from other standpoints.

We claim:

1, Abound book having a cover protector comprising a major portion extending over the outside surface of the book cover, and a minor portion attached to the inside surface of the book cover, said protector having scored separating lines extending between said portions to facilitate the removal of the major portion of said protector.

2. A bound .book having a plurality of superimposed cover protectors arranged over the outside surface and portions of the inside surface of the book cover, each of said cover protectors being provided with a scored lii e extending between portions of the cover protector for facilitating the removal of one of said cover protector por-. tions independently of the other. a

3. A bound book having a plurality of superimposed separately removable cover each formed with separating lines to facilitate their separate removal, said'separating lines of the respective protectorsbei'ng out of register with each other.

10c protectors inclosing the book cover, and

4. A bound book having a cover protector inclosing the cover of said book, said cover protector being provided with means for confining a rupture of the material thereof ment. 1

6. The combination with a book provided with a cover and a binding sheet secured to said cover, of a cover protector having a portion thereof secured to the cover between said cover and binding sheet. I

7. The combination with a book having a cover, of a plurality of cover protectors, each comprising a minor portion and a major portion separable from said minor portion, said minor portions being secured to the book between said book and cover.

8. The combination with a bound book, of a cover protector comprising a minor portion permanently attached to the cover of said book and a major portion extending over the outer surface of said book cover, said protector being provided With weakened lines extending intermediately of said portions to facilitate the removal of the major portion of the protector.

.9. The combination with a bound book, of a cover protector permanently attached to and inclosing the cover and formed with separating lines, said protector being provided struinent, said perforations of the respective protectors being out of register with each other.

' THEODORE C. HAILES.

CHARLES EDWARD JONES. 

